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Her maiden album hit the record charts with a boom and she sold more than 100 thousand copies within the first week of the launch the album titled Katharine Mcphee.

However, she stepped out of three jumps, including the legendary triple flip, the complex element she was the very first woman to accomplish, and a relatively easy double axel, which cost her the long program win and the overall gold medal.

At the 1981 World Championships, she placed 1st in the short, 3rd in the long, and 2nd in the combined free skating.

One of her rivals, silver medalist Elizabeth Manley, later complained about some of what she perceived to be dubious foul play in the event, including Witt's win in the figures where she overcame Manley's lead in the first two figures in the final loop figure, which Manley believed to be her best, and Manley's music not being played properly to start her short program where Manley had a combination miss and took only 4th place, ending her gold medal chances.

In 1990, she received an for her role in this film.

Witt found 3,000 pages on her life from the age of eight.

73m was seen as the runner up in the show American Ideal season 5.

Witt won her second gold in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics.

Particularly pleasing to Witt was her clean and very confident short program, where with some of the contenders with more a difficult jump combination Lu Chen, Josee Chouinard, Yuka Sato, Tonya Harding faltering, left her 6th, and an inclusion into the final flight of the long program which few gave her any chance of pre-Games.